Everything returned to normal, Zhu Houwei returned to the Forbidden City with Empress Xue, and the seven elders of the cabinet also returned to the duty room to be busy with their own government affairs.

But Tongzhou and his entourage, after all, set off monstrous waves in the hearts of the seven prisons of the cabinet.

It can be said that in less than a day in Tongzhou Industrial Park, the Son of Heaven almost opened a window in front of them, allowing them to think that the old guy who knew astronomy and geography almost re-recognized the world.

A steelmaking plant with an annual output of 30 million catties of pure steel!

A musket that is so powerful that it almost subverts their perception of birds!

A wide variety of artillery pieces of various specifications, the kind of general cannon that claims to be able to erode ten miles with one shell, is simply nonsense!

And what kind of welding machine can weld two iron plates together, it's just a god-like means!

And that bicycle with two big wheels, which allows people to run like a flyer when they get on it......

Soap workshop, perfume workshop, winery, pencil factory, glass factory......

There are too many, dazzling to see, so many new facts appear in front of your eyes at once, and that kind of impact is probably only immersive people like the Seven Elders can describe the feeling that shocked me to the extreme.

Technology changes the world!

This is a sentence that the Son of Heaven said after taking them to visit the industrial park, if there is no such line, then the Seven Elders will definitely not be able to appreciate the true meaning contained in these simple six words.

But now they understand!

What the cabinet understands better is not this sentence, but the determination of the Son of Heaven!

What the Son of Heaven wants is not to simply get rid of the malpractices of the Ming Dynasty, he wants to use all means to make the Ming Dynasty rise, the real rise!

What he wants is that the army of the Ming Dynasty can fight invincible opponents all over the world, completely eliminate the hidden dangers of the grassland, and complete the great cause that Emperor Taizu and Emperor Yongle, and even many talented emperors for thousands of years have not been able to completely complete.

And the seventh elder can be regarded as hearing it, when today's son has never regarded the grassland as a strong enemy, he thinks that the enemy is the Wa Kingdom!

What the Seven Elders didn't understand was why when the Son of Heaven talked about the Wa Kingdom, why the Son of Heaven's eyes flashed with a terrifying light of hatred!

The Wa Kingdom, the land of projectiles, has always groveled to the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years, even now, if it is really to say that it is just a disease of mustard, why does the Son of Heaven hate it, why does he hate it?

The answer may only be known to the Son of Heaven himself......

The biggest ambition of today's saints, the seventh elder also completely understands, he wants to break the fate of the dynasty with his own hands, and he wants to let the Ming dynasty truly be inherited for all generations and never die!

In the three or five hundred years, there were kings, since ancient times, there has been no undefeated country, and there is no immortal dynasty, as the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, the elders and even the vast majority of the courtiers are unlikely to be willing to see the Ming Dynasty perish, but this is not a question of whether they want to or not, nor is it a question of whether they are willing or not.

This is reincarnation, it is fate, and it is not easy to break it!

But the Son of Heaven has such ambitions, so as ministers, as ministers, as ministers, their only choice is to follow the emperor's steps and go on unswervingly.

There can be no wavering on this road, and for this reason, they have to block the discussion from the court for the Son of Heaven.

Perhaps Zhu Houwei himself did not expect that the trip to Tongzhou would be able to reap such unexpected effects.

You must know that since ancient times, the game between the monarch and the vassal power has not stopped, the king is strong, then the minister is suppressed, the power is naturally less, the king is weak, then it is easy to give birth to the minister, control the authority and then tilt the power to the government and the opposition!

However, now that Zhu Houwei just let the cabinet see another world, he made the elders choose to give up the struggle for power and took the initiative to stand aside with the Son of Heaven.

In the Ming Dynasty, cabinet officials said that they were the emperor's staff, but in fact, up to now, the cabinet has long become the backbone of the Manchu Dynasty, and the authority held by the cabinet is in many cases, even the emperor cannot ignore it.

For example, sealing.

The cabinet with the right to refute can dismiss the emperor's will, and the will without the seal of the cabinet can be counted.

For example, if Zhu Houwei wants to levy commercial tax, the Manchu ministers must be unwilling, so if the emperor wants to promulgate the will to collect commercial tax, he must obtain the consent of the cabinet, otherwise the commercial tax cannot be collected.

In the end, the reason why the cabinet did not veto Zhu Houwei's proposal to levy commercial taxes was because Zhu Houwei's big hat was too ruthless, so that the cabinet had no reason to oppose it at all, this is a reason, not power!

During the Wanli period, Zhu Yijun wanted to do the collection of commercial taxes and mining taxes, but it was obviously boycotted by the civil and official groups, but how could the boycott make the Wanli Emperor, who was already poor and crazy, retreat, so the mine supervisor appeared on the stage of history.

The appearance of the mine supervisor gave Emperor Wanli silver in his pocket, and he lived like an emperor this day, but Wanli was also completely saddled with the notoriety of greedy for money, competing for profits with the people, and extravagance......

Therefore, Zhu Houwei wants to implement any major policies, and his favorite thing to do is to convince people with reason with the cabinet, if the cabinet has to be non-violent and non-cooperative, then he will not mind using the double-edged sword of eunuchs.

Of course, with the unexpected gain of the trip to Tongzhou, the constraints from the cabinet will be much less in the future, at least Zhu Houwei will not be able to convince people every time he goes to the cabinet.

It's just that even if the seven elders of the cabinet choose to side with the emperor, they still have to represent the basic interests of Confucian scholars after all, that is to say, on general issues, even if the emperor wants to reform drastically, the cabinet will not raise too many doubts.

But there is a bottom line for all this, and the bottom line of the cabinet is the bottom line of the world's scholars, one is the main interests, and the other is Taoism!

There is not the slightest room for compromise between the two, and the seven elders of the cabinet do not dare to compromise.

Needless to say, this is related to the inheritance of Confucianism, if this position cannot be held, no matter whether it is Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, or Jiang Mian, they will inevitably become Confucian sinners, the kind of sinners who will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever and will never be able to turn over!

Don't think about the name behind you, you must know that the pen that writes history is still Confucianism, this cabinet has tossed the Taoism half dead, and still expects Confucianism to write you as a good person, and also expects them to give you a praise nickname?

Self-deception doesn't bring such a play......

The other is the interest, the core of the interest is the land tax exemption, which is needless to say.

These two points are the bottom line that the cabinet must adhere to, and if you stick to it, you can succeed and retire, and if you can't hold it, then there is only one possibility in the end.

It doesn't matter if you are dead or alive, the Confucian pen will definitely hack you out......

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